reminds me of that old weed and seed joint the had! them cats is just getting out!
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18874497/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18874497/
Central District oporation crackdown
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"In court records, the men are accused of dealing drugs from an SUV parked in the 100 block of 26th Avenue in the Central Area, often selling in the middle of the day."
You know, if youre gonna be soopin....at least be fuckin smart about it. Cats these days get to flamboyant and are in the game for the glory, not the money. If youre gonna be a fuckin idiot about your hustle...then you should expect to get popped.
Be smart about your hustle.
You know, if youre gonna be soopin....at least be fuckin smart about it. Cats these days get to flamboyant and are in the game for the glory, not the money. If youre gonna be a fuckin idiot about your hustle...then you should expect to get popped.
Be smart about your hustle.
Philadelphia Phever just off 23rd & Madison makes better sandwiches than Philly's Best, which I believe isn't even open anymore b/c the owner got murdered on Union Street. There's another sandwich joint on the site now, but I doubt it's the same one that the guy was talkin about.
"Gene Rivers has lived 57 of his 62 years in the Central District, long enough to watch the stain of drugs and gangs grow in his neighborhood.
He has seen neighbors gardening, notice someone using drugs or dealing them nearby and go back to their yard work.
"It's come to be accepted," Rivers said of the dealing. "Well, that's what we don't want, is for it to be accepted."
The arrests, he hopes, will make the Central District safer.
"I love the neighborhood," Rivers said. "I don't want to walk away from the Central Area. I just don't want to give up on it."
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That's really interesting, b/c from what I understood, any changes the CD was going through were in the opposite direction. The neighborhood isn't anything close to what it once was when it comes to poverty, crime & violence, it's getting rapidly gentrified. That guy talking about not wanting to give up on the Central Area surprises me, b/c I know places like South King County and Northgate are full of African American people with family histories in the CD who desperately want to return to that neighborhood for all the history and culture there, but they can't get back in there b/c they can't afford it. This article almost feels like it's from the early 90s or something.
Interesting, thanks for posting it.
"Gene Rivers has lived 57 of his 62 years in the Central District, long enough to watch the stain of drugs and gangs grow in his neighborhood.
He has seen neighbors gardening, notice someone using drugs or dealing them nearby and go back to their yard work.
"It's come to be accepted," Rivers said of the dealing. "Well, that's what we don't want, is for it to be accepted."
The arrests, he hopes, will make the Central District safer.
"I love the neighborhood," Rivers said. "I don't want to walk away from the Central Area. I just don't want to give up on it."
^^^
That's really interesting, b/c from what I understood, any changes the CD was going through were in the opposite direction. The neighborhood isn't anything close to what it once was when it comes to poverty, crime & violence, it's getting rapidly gentrified. That guy talking about not wanting to give up on the Central Area surprises me, b/c I know places like South King County and Northgate are full of African American people with family histories in the CD who desperately want to return to that neighborhood for all the history and culture there, but they can't get back in there b/c they can't afford it. This article almost feels like it's from the early 90s or something.
Interesting, thanks for posting it.
shit though i'll put it like this.....In cincinatti in 1997 whites tried to take over a prodomenently black areas and niggas realized they was gettin outed the united and spray painted whites homes whrecked they cars threw rocks in windows and much more extreme shit so no whites felt safe with there children and the whites eventually moved the fuck out. when 9 year olds to 45 year old are all working togethe the police couldent stop it. It wouldent be to late for the central. In cincinati they didnt burn any homes with kids and had rules and restaint but they made there point. Seattle niggas was so high of this Seaweed???? they just said fuck it im off to kent or federal way fuckit ima go to tacoma. there was no .....?????? plan to deal with the situation. Because the original central district is one of a kind Seattle's own.
That's interesting, I'm going to try and see if I can dig some stuff on that up b/c I don't know anything about that. I know that Cincinnati, like most Midwestern cities, has racial problems to the max degree in America so that doesn't surprise me.
The Cincy vs Seattle thing could also be a strength in numbers thing, b/c a black neighborhood in Cincinnati means 95% black while a black neighborhood in Seattle means 50% black. In its heyday, the Central District was still only 75% black.
I think you'd love the book "The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District From WWI To the Civil Rights Era" by Quintard Taylor, he's a UW Professor of History.
The Cincy vs Seattle thing could also be a strength in numbers thing, b/c a black neighborhood in Cincinnati means 95% black while a black neighborhood in Seattle means 50% black. In its heyday, the Central District was still only 75% black.
I think you'd love the book "The Forging of a Black Community: Seattle's Central District From WWI To the Civil Rights Era" by Quintard Taylor, he's a UW Professor of History.
Here is another fun fact for everyone:
Seattle is the 2nd whitest large city in the US...second ONLY to Portland. The NW is officially the whitest region in the country.
Read this article in the Washintgon Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800605.html
Seattle is the 2nd whitest large city in the US...second ONLY to Portland. The NW is officially the whitest region in the country.
Read this article in the Washintgon Post:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800605.html